Seaon 1 Episode 5: Got Milk

Air Date: November 26, 2025

Synopsis: Carol doubles down on her investigation—loneliness be damned. Meanwhile, howls in the night reveal a new source of danger.

Directed by: Gordon Smith

Written by: Ariel Levine

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    2 hours ago

    The CGI was so bad this episode. The blurred rooftop scene, the wolves — they looked completely unrealistic. With 15 million per episode, they could have either hired better graphics artists or used real animals. This episode broke something for me. Like… I can see now that Gilligan isn’t perfect.

    I thought of Soylent Green the moment Zosia revealed that 800 million people (10% of the global population) died during the conversion. It seems like a logical step to use them as food rather than bury useful nutrients. I personally wouldn’t care, but it would be hilarious if this fact ended up helping Carol gain support from a few people who are still unaffected. “You consume the consciousness and personality of people? We don’t care. You consume the flesh of people? No, no, no, you can’t do THAT.”

    Question, though: is it even possible to turn flesh into this kind of grain/dust/powder? Why not just eat the flesh directly—make “human jerky” or something like that? I mean… as humans we don’t consume or produce meat in the form of liquid or dissolvable powder; it’s too hard to make and not very feasible. Why did they decide to make it a powder specifically? Just for the plot? Really strange, considering Gilligan’s love for science and chemistry.

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    12 hours ago

    Her face at the end there was amazing. I am so anxious for the reveal of what she saw. What do you guys think? Is it a soylent green situation? I feel like that would be too expected.

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      6 hours ago

      It is so fricking thrilling, such a cliffhanger! Really looking forward to the discovery, hoping that it won’t be the obvious

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      11 hours ago

      I bet thats what we’re meant to think. Maybe they’re condensing the planet’s population and it’s like the cordyceps fungus in ants.

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    19 hours ago

    Thoughts:

    1. Rhea Seehorn can totally carry an episode by herself. That was pretty epic in and of itself.
    2. The drone fail 😅
    3. I found it interesting how “they” firewalled themselves from Carol by only communicating by recording and interacting via drones. Carol definitely seems to have spooked them.
    4. Granted, she did drug and nearly kill one of them so can’t blame “them”
    5. I wonder what was on the second take of the second video we saw her record?
    6. I’m sad I didn’t wait a bit longer to watch this episode because it’s going to be even longer before we ind out what she found at the food packaging plant.
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    16 hours ago

    I hope Carol will do collab with the greatest vlogger of all time, Lalo Salamanca.

    It was quite a leap to go from powder bag to dog food factory.

    Maybe next episode will have more reveals, so if Carol saw dead bodies it will be the smallest of surprises awaiting us.

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      11 hours ago

      Regarding the leap: she did probably just imagine this as working similarly to the milk cartons: they reuse some other factory, but in this case could omit the labeling. So she browsed the store, looking for a similar bag.

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    22 hours ago

    Sorry for the late post, I thought this episode would release on friday 😅

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    21 hours ago

    Was that Howard (Patrick Fabian) from Better Call Saul on the voice recording in the beginning?? IMDb doesn’t list him here, but it sounded just like him.